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Archive for December 24, 2009
Learning More With Educational Books
Dec 24th
They say that the internet is killing the book industry, but one area that it is certainly not being overrun is in the educational books department. Every year millions of students around the world purchase educational books to help assist them on their school, college, university or master degree courses.
What has always staggered me is the cost of these books. Firstly when you go into the bookstore they are not easy to find, but when you do finally manage to track them down these educational books are often twice or three times the price of a regular autobiography and up to six times as much as a short novel. So why are these books so expensive?
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they don’t expect to sell to many so they increase the price to make a decent profit off of them. The bestselling novels authors can expect sales up to 30 million copies, Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons sold 39 million copies to date and it doesn’t take a genius to work out that 5 pounds a book, even with the publishing fees and agents he has made a healthy profit.
The suspicious exercise trails.
Dec 24th
The benefits of enrolling in an online degree program are becoming more popular and widespread for students across the country. When factors like cost effectiveness, travel and distance time, and flexibility of schedule are introduced; many are pleased with the idea of working from home to further their education.
Recent research indicates that more than one in four college students are taking online courses, a large jump from just one year ago. More students are discovering the perks of online college. When surveyed, the reason students are enrolling in online college varied. Some did it for convenience and cost, while others wanted to avoid contracting serious illnesses such as the H1N1.
Institutions surveyed reported overwhelmingly that increased demand for both new and existing programs has been a driving factor in the growth of online learning, including about two-thirds of institutions citing demand for new offerings and nearly three-quarters of institutions experiencing higher demand for current offerings.